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The country’s tourism minister, Sripad Naik, hopes to make south Mumbai’s Kala Ghoda neighborhood a “hub of heritage and culture.” Because if there’s anything New Yorkers know, it’s that Times Square is exactlythat.

Plans for the artsy neighborhood include giant electronic billboards and a TKTS-style staircase-to-nowhere where visitors can lounge and mug for cameras that display their likenesses onto overheadJumbotrons.

Fully replicating the Times Square experience, of course, requires adults in creepy costumes, and planners are hoping to have characters “from the cinemas of India and cartoons by Indian cartoonists” wandering the site. (No word on whether they will be violence-prone.)

Yet Quartz reports that the Indian government is only planning on investing $800,000 in the initial phase of this project, which raises the question of how, exactly, this will all beexecuted.